Definition of "parlours" [parlours]

• Plural form of parlour. (noun)

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• "It consists of a series of closets, the largest of which may be about eight feet square, which they call parlours and kitchens and pantries, some of them minus a corner, which has been unnaturally filched for a chimney, others deficient in half a side, which has been truncated by a shelving roof."
• "As my parlours were the only ones that boasted a pier-glass, and, besides, had the advantage of being on the drawing-room floor of the hotel, it became a custom for the women composing our circle to come to my rooms before going out, in order to see how their dresses hung."
• "The rooms are very small, and all have beds in them: parlours, that is, rooms without beds, must be hired separately."